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    The document discusses various study skills and techniques for improving memory and learning, including organizing one's study space and time, focusing on comprehension rather than memorization, and using mnemonic devices. Some specific techniques mentioned are chunking information into groups, using acronyms, visualization, linking ideas, and taking notes to retain information. The document also covers different learning styles and word formation processes such as coinage, borrowing, compounding, clipping, blending, acronyming, and reduplication.

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    The document discusses various study skills and techniques for improving memory and learning, including organizing one's study space and time, focusing on comprehension rather than memorization, and using mnemonic devices. Some specific techniques mentioned are chunking information into groups, using acronyms, visualization, linking ideas, and taking notes to retain information. The document also covers different learning styles and word formation processes such as coinage, borrowing, compounding, clipping, blending, acronyming, and reduplication.

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    Study and Thinking Skills

    Good study habits are practices or routines 5. Memorizing


    that enable you to succeed as a student. They Memorizing is act or process of remembering.
    pertain to the following:
    Mnemonics
    1. Allotting a STUDY TIME Techniques that can help in memorizing
    Techniques that allows learners to
    2. Allotting a STUDY PLACE
    remember information using short retrieval
    3. Knowing WHAT TO STUDY cues

    4. Knowing WHY YOU STUDY Types of Mnemonics

    5. Knowing HOW TO STUDY Chunking


    Breaking up complicated lists into sensible groupings
    e.g. cellphone/ telephone numbers (484-**-**)
    STUDY SKILLS Acronyms
    1. Organizing Using the first letter from a group of words to form a
    Study area new word
    Long-term and short-term goals e.g. ROYGBIV (colors of the rainbow)
    Study materials Visualization
    All necessary supplies Creating pictures on your mind or on paper
    2. Scheduling Linking Method
    Write down all activities and due dates on a Linking each item using crazy images
    large monthly calendar Peg Method
    Make a sched that fit your needs Visualizing words literally attached to familiar
    Schedule a daily and weekly review time objects
    3. Managing time Method of Loci
    (setting your priorities and having time for Uses locations to cue memory
    everything) Place Method
    Estimating how long will the task take before Uses numbers and a poem instead of landmarks
    starting Chaining
    Start from your least favorite subject to get it Create a story where each word or idea you have to
    over with remember cues the next idea you need to recall
    Give yourself a reward, a break and a Keywords
    limitation Using sound likes; imagine an image that involves the
    4. Concentrating keyword
    Concentration is the ability to direct your Acrostics
    thinking. Create sentences from the first letter of every word
    BEST PRACTICES that needs to be remembered
    Be here now Rhymes and Songs
    Worry / think time Create your own songs and rhymes to remember.
    Tally mental wanderings Movement Learning or Hands-on Learning
    Visualize Same as rhyme and songs the difference is the person
    has to take physical action to remember.
    Taking Notes and Summarizing
    One of the best ways to retain what you have read

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    Face Association 4. Clipping
    Looking at a person’s face closely, but discretely “shortening” / reducing parts of a word
    finding a feature to make it stand out in your mind Types of Clipping
    Image-naming a. Back clipping – retains the first part
    Creating relationships between the name and the e.g. Advertisement – Ad Doctor – Doc
    physical characteristics of the person to remember b. Fore-clipping – retains the last part
    the person’s name e.g. charcoal – coal examination – exam
    Rhyme-keys c. Middle clipping – middle of the word is retained
    Using two or more words that if combined rhymes e.g. influenza – flu detective – tec
    the word you want to remember d. Complex clipping – one or two parts are clipped
    Repetition e.g. optical art – op art science fiction – sci-fi
    5. Blending
    Forming of words from parts of two other words
    Learning Styles Ways of Blending
    Plata, 2005 a. Beginning of the other + ending of the other
    e.g. brunch; splutter; infotainment
    1. Active vs Reflective b. Beginnings of both words
    2. Factual vs Theoretical e.g. cyborg; sitcom
    3. Visual vs Verbal c. One complete word + part of the other
    4. Linear vs Holistic e.g. guesstimate
    d. Multiple sounds from two component words are
    Menoy, 2010
    blended
    1. Auditory e.g. chortle; aerobicize;telecast
    2. Visual 6. Acronyming
    3. Tactile Forming of word from the initials of words in a set
    4. Kinesthetic phrase
    7. Derivations
    Neologism The forming of new words through the addition of
    affixes
    A newly coined word or phrase 8. Reduplicating
    The root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated
    The process of coining or using of new words
    Types of Reduplication
    To coin is to invent a word or phrase a. Rhyming reduplication
    e.g. claptrap; hokey-pokey; honey-bunny
    PROCESS OF WORD FORMATION b. Exact reduplication
    e.g. bye-bye; choo-choo; night-night
    1. Coinage c. Ablaut reduplication
    Using generic terms as part of the whole e.g. bric-a-brac; chit-chat; criss-cross
    E.g. Pampers = diaper Tempra = paracetamol 9. Abbreviating
    2. Borrowing The process or result of representing a words by a
    The using of loanwords or taking from another shorter form of the word.
    language e.g. Acct. - account; Jrnl. – journal; Wd. – word
    E.g. piano=Italian robot=Czech
    3. Compounding
    Use of two or more roots to form a word
    Kinds of Compounding
    a. Close – bittersweet, countdown
    b. Open – pushcart vendor, optical art
    c. Hyphenated – merry-go-round, officer-in-charge
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